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2.35 lakh new covid cases in India, 613 deaths in 24 hours

January 29, 2022
Bharat Times

New Delhi:
India’s daily Covid curve showed a slight improvement today as the country recorded 2.35 lakh cases, which is almost 6% lower than yesterday. The country reported 871 deaths, including 258 backlog deaths and 613 fresh casualties from Kerala.

Here are the top 10 updates to this big story:

  1. So far, about 4.93 lakh people have died due to this virus in the country. The 613 fresh deaths recorded today are the highest daily casualties recorded during the third wave.

  2. Active now comprise 4.91 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has come down to 93.89 per cent. In the week ending January 26, 400 districts have registered more than 10 percent positivity.

  3. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage 164.04 crore dosage has been exceeded. 95 percent of India’s eligible adult population has been given the first dose of the COVID vaccine, while 74 percent are fully vaccinated.

  4. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will review the COVID situation, public health preparedness as well as response measures in the context of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh at 3 pm today. , Earlier on Friday, Mr Mandaviya, during a high-level meeting with health ministers of southern states and union territories, had emphasized on e-sanjeevani, teleconsultation, monitoring home isolation and increasing RTPCR in states, which have low percentage of testing. are reporting.

  5. Maharashtra has seen sharpest jump in daily covid deaths Since October 6 – 103 patients died in the last 24 hours in the state with the highest overall number of cases in the country (76,55,554). The state recorded a positivity rate of 10.32 per cent, which is lower than the national average (15.88 per cent). With 24,948 new infections, the state’s daily surge was marginally lower than the day before (25,425).

  6. Delhi continues to record a decline in its daily COVID-19 caseload as it reported 4,044 new infections during the last 24 hours. The positivity rate was 8.60 percent. There are 29,152 active COVID-19 cases in the city, of which 23,153 are currently in home isolation.

  7. In the south, Omicron has become the dominant strain in Karnataka, with 67.5 per cent of the samples testing positive for the variant. In contrast, the delta variant, which was more dominant during the second wave with a 90.7 percent positivity rate of the sample, has now become less effective, with a 26 percent positivity rate. With 31,198 fresh cases, the state’s COVID-19 caseload reached 37,23,694, while 50 deaths climbed to 38,804.

  8. The number of fresh cases in Kerala continues to rise unabated, with 54,537 cases being reported in the state on Friday taking the number of infections to 58,81,133. According to the health department, 352 deaths have been reported, taking the death toll to 52,786.

  9. Except Mizoram, there has been a decline in the cases of Kovid in the rest of the Northeast. The northeastern state has reported 2,143 new infections, recording a positivity rate of around 30 per cent. Yesterday the state had registered 2,064 new COVID-19 cases.

  10. The world recorded an average of more than two million daily coronavirus cases between January 1 and January 7, doubling in 10 days, news agency AFP reported. The virus has killed more than 5.4 million people since its outbreak in China in December 2019.

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